Featured attraction: MEDITATION PARK at Genesis Cinema (12 AUG 20:30), part of CANADA NOW and #WomenInFilm2018: “Mina Shum’s new film is a touching, amusing, decidedly entertaining tale of an Asian-Canadian grandmother’s declaration of personal independence after discovering her longstanding husband may not be as worthy of her reverential treatment as she once believed.”

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Celebrate the genius of director and star Buster Keaton with a triple bill of brilliant slapstick comedy, introduced by young programmer Keaton Leigh. Includes THE ELECTRIC HOUSE (1922, 22min), THE BALLOONATIC (1923, 22min), and COPS (1922, 18min).

Loading Bar presents: Released on August 12th 2014 as a free download, P.T. was an interactive teaser which turned out to be for the video game Silent Hills. Although that full game never went into production, this playable teaser recieved critical acclaim and terrified people for over a year until it was pulled. The brain child of Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro, Loading Bar have decided to play it on the big screen….

On the twentieth anniversary of SEX & THE CITY’S premiere, join Genesis for five carefully selected episodes of the show and an obligatory Cosmopolitan, followed by a discussion of friendships and relationships on the show and beyond, between Zhenya Tsenzharyk and Laura Staab, two women who have experienced life lived in a city and on the small screen, together.

GRIND SHOWS

Created entirely from hundreds of hours of downloadable Chinese surveillance footage, DRAGONFLY EYES’ unsettling fictional narrative tells the story of a young woman who leaves a Buddhist monastery to begin a new life, working in various jobs until she ultimately finds fame online.

In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, intelligent teen Veronica (Winona Ryder) teams up with a dark sociopath, J.D. (Christian Slater) in a plot to kill the cool kids in what is one of the decade’s defining cult classics of 1980s cinema.

Sixteen years after their first collaboration on the groundbreaking RIVERS AND TIDES, filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer returns with an absorbing documentary portrait of the influential British sculptor and environmentalist.

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